Nicola Munaro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1714907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Munaro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Munaro |
| SIGNATURE | MUNARO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8121-6676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Some comparative remarks on the adverbial particle po and its Central Rhaeto-Romance cognates
In this article I undertake a comparative survey of the distributional and interpretive properties of the adverbial particle po/pa across the Dolomitic region, trying to shed light on the diachronic process of grammaticalization it has undergone in some Central Rhaeto-Romance varieties; in doing so, I crucially refer to the role this particle plays in determining the epistemic state of the discourse participants. Its grammaticalization as an inte…
Embedding Strategies in Early Venetan Vernaculars
The aim of this work is to shed some light on the categorial status and syntactic distribution of the subordinators como and, more specifically, quando as it emerges from some early Venetan texts dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries. The proposed analysis accounts for the semantic ambiguity of these embedding connectors in strictly structural terms. In particular, the pervasive interpretive ambiguity of come/como attested in the old Italo-R…
Non-integrated conditionals as speech-event modifiers: Evidence from Romance
Capitalizing on the basic distinction between central and peripheral adverbial clauses, the main aim of this contribution is to shed some light on certain left-right asymmetries in the distributional properties of integrated and non-integrated (concessive) conditional clauses in standard Italian, drawing indirect evidence from multiple complementizer constructions in (early) Romance. By exploring the distribution of preposed central conditional c…
The grammaticalization path of Latin post across the Dolomitic region
This article offers a comparative survey of the distributional and interpretive properties of the adverbial particles po/pa across the Dolomitic region. By comparing the syntactic behaviour and the semantic contribution of this lexical item in different but closely related dialects, I try to better characterize the diachronic process of grammaticalization the Latin adverb post has undergone in the relevant geographic area, showing that it amounts…
Clause Typing in Main Polar Questions: Evidence from Italo‐Romance
This article investigates the morpho‐syntactic marking of main polar questions, which is achieved across Italo‐Romance by crosslinguistically different strategies. I argue that the interpretation of main polar questions is related to the activation of a dedicated functional head that encodes the relevant formal feature within the left‐periphery. In particular, I explore the possibility that the process of clause typing in unembedded yes / no ques…
Towards a Typology of wh-Doubling in Northern Italian Dialects
In this work we examine the distribution of wh-in-situ and short (i.e., clause internal) wh-doubling in Northern Italian dialects with the purpose of showing that wh-in-situ and wh-doubling are not unitary phenomena, since they are subject to different distributional properties across dialects. We show that wh-doubling cannot be reduced to a single analysis but rather corresponds to a family of phenomena which have in common the basic procedure o…
Complementizer doubling and subject extraction in Italo-Romance
In this article I analyze the complementizer doubling construction attested in some early and modern Italo-Romance varieties, where a preposed (clausal or non clausal) constituent associated to the selected clause appears in the embedded left periphery preceded and followed by a subordinating complementizer. While the higher complementizer is uncontroversially interpreted as a lexicalization of the head Force°, the lower complementizer has been t…
Localizing conditional clauses in the left periphery: Evidence from multiple complementizer constructions in romance
This article analyzes the distribution of conditional clauses in multiple complementizer constructions, showing that preposed adverbial clauses could occupy in early Italo-Romance varieties different specifier positions within the left periphery of embedded clauses, a possibility that has been lost with time in Italo-Romance but is still attested in modern Ibero-Romance. It is further argued that in multiple complementizer structures the highest …
Verbless predicative structures across Romance
This article develops an analysis of a verbless predicative structure attested throughout Romance: in this type of reduced clause the predicate linearly precedes the subject and is separated from it by a clear intonational break, while the missing verb is interpreted as a silent copula. I argue that this structure should be viewed as the result of three movement steps: the first step is to be identified with predicate inversion, that is, extracti…
Functional Heads: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 7
On the diachronic origin of sentential particles in North-Eastern Italian dialects
In this article we try to determine the diachronic origin of a few sentential particles attested in some North-Eastern Italian dialects on the basis of their syntactic properties. The particles we consider are associated with specific clause types and can only appear in matrix non-declarative clauses; they generally occur in sentence-final position, and only some of them can follow the wh- item in an interrogative clause. They display the typical…
Sentential particles and clausal typing in the veneto dialects
In this work we examine several sentential particles, occurring in imperatives, main exclamative and interrogative sentences, which display a uniform syntactic behaviour. We analyse them as heads of high CP projections which require their specifier to be filled either by the wh-item (in sentences where there is one) or by the whole clause, yielding the sentence final position of the particle. The hypothesis that they are C°-heads accounts for the…
Eppur si muove: On comparing French and Bellunese wh -movement
This article offers a comparative syntax approach to wh-questions in French and Bellunese, a Northern Italian dialect spoken in the town of Belluno. A striking difference between the two languages, otherwise very closely related, lies in the fact that bare wh-words in root questions, which display obligatory subject clitic inversion (SCLI), must appear at the right edge of the sentence in Bellunese. In French on the other hand apparent in situ st…
Eppur si muove: On comparing French and Bellunese wh -movement
This article offers a comparative syntax approach to wh-questions in French and Bellunese, a Northern Italian dialect spoken in the town of Belluno. A striking difference between the two languages, otherwise very closely related, lies in the fact that bare wh-words in root questions, which display obligatory subject clitic inversion (SCLI), must appear at the right edge of the sentence in Bellunese. In French on the other hand apparent in situ st…
Towards a Typology of wh-Doubling in Northern Italian Dialects
In this work we examine the distribution of wh-in-situ and short (i.e., clause internal) wh-doubling in Northern Italian dialects with the purpose of showing that wh-in-situ and wh-doubling are not unitary phenomena, since they are subject to different distributional properties across dialects. We show that wh-doubling cannot be reduced to a single analysis but rather corresponds to a family of phenomena which have in common the basic procedure o…
Eppur si muove: On comparing French and Bellunese wh -movement
This article offers a comparative syntax approach to wh-questions in French and Bellunese, a Northern Italian dialect spoken in the town of Belluno. A striking difference between the two languages, otherwise very closely related, lies in the fact that bare wh-words in root questions, which display obligatory subject clitic inversion (SCLI), must appear at the right edge of the sentence in Bellunese. In French on the other hand apparent in situ st…
Sentential particles and clausal typing in the veneto dialects
In this work we examine several sentential particles, occurring in imperatives, main exclamative and interrogative sentences, which display a uniform syntactic behaviour. We analyse them as heads of high CP projections which require their specifier to be filled either by the wh-item (in sentences where there is one) or by the whole clause, yielding the sentence final position of the particle. The hypothesis that they are C°-heads accounts for the…
On the diachronic origin of sentential particles in North-Eastern Italian dialects
In this article we try to determine the diachronic origin of a few sentential particles attested in some North-Eastern Italian dialects on the basis of their syntactic properties. The particles we consider are associated with specific clause types and can only appear in matrix non-declarative clauses; they generally occur in sentence-final position, and only some of them can follow the wh- item in an interrogative clause. They display the typical…
Functional Heads: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 7
Verbless predicative structures across Romance
This article develops an analysis of a verbless predicative structure attested throughout Romance: in this type of reduced clause the predicate linearly precedes the subject and is separated from it by a clear intonational break, while the missing verb is interpreted as a silent copula. I argue that this structure should be viewed as the result of three movement steps: the first step is to be identified with predicate inversion, that is, extracti…
Localizing conditional clauses in the left periphery: Evidence from multiple complementizer constructions in romance
This article analyzes the distribution of conditional clauses in multiple complementizer constructions, showing that preposed adverbial clauses could occupy in early Italo-Romance varieties different specifier positions within the left periphery of embedded clauses, a possibility that has been lost with time in Italo-Romance but is still attested in modern Ibero-Romance. It is further argued that in multiple complementizer structures the highest …
Complementizer doubling and subject extraction in Italo-Romance
In this article I analyze the complementizer doubling construction attested in some early and modern Italo-Romance varieties, where a preposed (clausal or non clausal) constituent associated to the selected clause appears in the embedded left periphery preceded and followed by a subordinating complementizer. While the higher complementizer is uncontroversially interpreted as a lexicalization of the head Force°, the lower complementizer has been t…
Towards a Typology of wh-Doubling in Northern Italian Dialects
In this work we examine the distribution of wh-in-situ and short (i.e., clause internal) wh-doubling in Northern Italian dialects with the purpose of showing that wh-in-situ and wh-doubling are not unitary phenomena, since they are subject to different distributional properties across dialects. We show that wh-doubling cannot be reduced to a single analysis but rather corresponds to a family of phenomena which have in common the basic procedure o…
Clause Typing in Main Polar Questions: Evidence from Italo‐Romance
This article investigates the morpho‐syntactic marking of main polar questions, which is achieved across Italo‐Romance by crosslinguistically different strategies. I argue that the interpretation of main polar questions is related to the activation of a dedicated functional head that encodes the relevant formal feature within the left‐periphery. In particular, I explore the possibility that the process of clause typing in unembedded yes / no ques…
Non-integrated conditionals as speech-event modifiers: Evidence from Romance
Capitalizing on the basic distinction between central and peripheral adverbial clauses, the main aim of this contribution is to shed some light on certain left-right asymmetries in the distributional properties of integrated and non-integrated (concessive) conditional clauses in standard Italian, drawing indirect evidence from multiple complementizer constructions in (early) Romance. By exploring the distribution of preposed central conditional c…
The grammaticalization path of Latin post across the Dolomitic region
This article offers a comparative survey of the distributional and interpretive properties of the adverbial particles po/pa across the Dolomitic region. By comparing the syntactic behaviour and the semantic contribution of this lexical item in different but closely related dialects, I try to better characterize the diachronic process of grammaticalization the Latin adverb post has undergone in the relevant geographic area, showing that it amounts…
Some comparative remarks on the adverbial particle po and its Central Rhaeto-Romance cognates
In this article I undertake a comparative survey of the distributional and interpretive properties of the adverbial particle po/pa across the Dolomitic region, trying to shed light on the diachronic process of grammaticalization it has undergone in some Central Rhaeto-Romance varieties; in doing so, I crucially refer to the role this particle plays in determining the epistemic state of the discourse participants. Its grammaticalization as an inte…
Embedding Strategies in Early Venetan Vernaculars
The aim of this work is to shed some light on the categorial status and syntactic distribution of the subordinators como and, more specifically, quando as it emerges from some early Venetan texts dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries. The proposed analysis accounts for the semantic ambiguity of these embedding connectors in strictly structural terms. In particular, the pervasive interpretive ambiguity of come/como attested in the old Italo-R…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (6 works) · Adverbial (4 works) · Interrogative (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works)